Role
Descriptions (click on the links below)
Witness
Attorney
Court
Language
For
this activity, you are to treat this as a real court case. In order to
recreate the experience of the courtroom, you are going to have to become
familiar with certain court language.
Attorneys
Objections
and When to Use Them
1. Narrative: "Objection,
your honor, counsel's question calls for a narrative."
- When an attorney asks a witness a question that requires a long, drawn
out answer.
2. Non-Responsive: "Objection,
your honor, the witness is being asked a non-responsive."
- When a response does not anwer the question asked
3. Relevence: "Objection,
your honor, counsel's question calls for irrelevent testimony."
- When an attorney asks a question that does not apply to this case
4. Leading
Question: "Objection, your honor, counsel is leading the witness."
- Only inappropriate on direct examination, but ok
on cross; when an attorney asks a question that implies the answer; usually
begins with, "Isn't it true that..."
5. Asked
and answered: "Objection, your honor, this question has already
been asked and answered."
- When an attorney asks a witness a question that has
been asked already.
Baliff
- "All
rise, Superior Court of the State of California, County of Ventura, Judge
(Steele, Eulau, Prewitt) presiding. Court is now in session. Please be
seated and come to order."
- "_(name)_,
please step forward. Raise your right hand. Do you solemnly affirm that
the testimoney you give in the cause now pending before this court shall
be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?"
- "Please
state your name for the record."
List
of Witnesses (click on the links below to conduct your research)